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Submission + - Transactional Memory at Sun

Submitted by 12357bd on Wednesday August 22, 2007 @07:02AM

12357bd writes: The register is reporting that : 'Hoping to improve the state of server software, Sun Microsystems has confirmed that it will include support for transactional memory with the first generation of its Rock processors due out in the second half of next year.'

Does it means Transactional Memory will become a major trend?. Details of sun implementation at sun research site..

Submission + - Microsoft gets company's code-signing cert revoked

Submitted by Beryllium Sphere(tm) on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @02:48AM

Beryllium Sphere(tm) writes: Australian firm Linchpin Labs released a free tool called Atsiv on July 20 to allow 64-bit Vista users to install unsigned drivers.

It was a simple hack: a signed driver that could install other drivers without checking their signatures.

By August 2, Microsoft had persuaded Verisign to revoke Linchpin's code signing certificate. The revocation takes effect the next time a computer is rebooted.

Scott Field of Microsoft said "Microsoft is committed to protecting its customers from potential as well as actual security threads[sic]".

History buffs may remember a similar incident from 1997 in which the author of an ActiveX control to shut down a computer found his certificate revoked.

Lockergnome coverage of the Linchpin Labs story.
Microsoft announcement of revoking Linchpin's certificate and adding them to the blacklist in Windows Defender as "potentially unwanted software".

Submission + - Getting out while the Gettin's good? 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 20, 2007 @01:17AM

An anonymous reader writes: OK, so I live in the Bay Area, and have for years and years now. I also run my own small but growing and successful local business. I have a lot to keep me here, friends, clients, and more. Yet, due to fortune of birth, I also have Canadian citizenship. And, due to fortune of my skills and profession, I know folks there who could get me a decent job pretty easily while I restart my business there. I've never thought about moving out of the good ol' USA, but these days it don't always seem so Good. Seeing that I've got an easy out, and how so many here when topics such as Real ID come up say to 'get out' while we can, well, as a big ol' geek I ask Slashdot: Should I get out while the gettin's good?

Submission + - VMWare stock debuts today (infoworld.com)

Submitted by

ccguy

on Tuesday August 14, 2007 @03:07AM

ccguy writes: "The hottest tech IPO since Google is here. VMWare starts trading today at $29. Of course lots of sites mention it, such as Infoworld, BusinessWeek or eWeek."

Submission + - HP looks to expand open source services

Submitted by Robert on Thursday May 24, 2007 @07:08AM

Robert writes: Hewlett-Packard is seeking to expand its budding open source services business by targeting some of its customers' key concerns — notably governance of open source software. Among his targets are open source legal compliance and licensing, which is one of the biggest challenges of open source governance that HP customers face, Hergett said in an interview. "As they're wanting to adopt more open source and Linux across a broader part of the enterprise, they're... putting a lot more though into how they're going to govern open source, because it's very different from traditional software in a lot of areas."

Submission + - H1-B limits drastically increased by S.1348

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @02:13PM

An anonymous reader writes: S. 1348 is an extensive rewrite of US immigration law currently being debated in the Senate. What has gotten buried in all the debate about illegal immigrants is that the H1-B visa program will be drastically expanded by this bill in its current form. H1-B visas are currently limited to 65,000 new visas per year, with a six year maximum stay.

By my reading, If S. 1348 passes as-is, H1-B visas will immediately be increased to 115,000 per year, and each year the full number is issued the number will increase by 20%. There is no cap on this increase.

In 9 years, the government could be issuing half a million H1-B's per year.

Apart from the H1-B issue, this bill (if passed) is a major rewrite of US immigration law and well worth your attention.

I've written my senators specifically about this increase. If you feel strongly about this, please call, write, or email your senators... do something now. If you wait, it will be too late to do anything about it other than lament or celebrate.

The bill (S. 1348):
"http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill =s110-1348"

Expansion of the H1-B program (Sec. 523)
[Scroll down and click Sec. 523 I wanted to include a link but no direct linking to sections]

The U.S. Code that is being amended by Sec. 523:
"http://frwebgate5.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate .cgi?WAISdocID=942841245969+2+0+0&WAISaction=retri eve"
(hard to find the section amended by Sec. 523... search on 65,000)

Submission + - Linux doesn't belong in small businesses

Submitted by

Julie188

on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @01:05PM

Julie188 writes: "Is Linux bad news for small businesses? Seems like SMBs, above all, could benefit from more freedom, lower costs but John Obeto is downright angry at the thought. He writes: "Earlier on today, I posted about the Office-less office. Now I have to continue with the chimera that is Linux for SMBs! Yes, some yobs are advocating that small businesses yank out their current server OS and install one of the new Linux offerings. Any small business owner that entrusts his/her computing service to a Linux SMB solution is, IMO, either no longer interested in whatever business that small business is currently in, and would like to start a career in Linux hell, or is plain crazy." Maybe Obeto is crazy."

Submission + - Munich's KDE Desktops Usability Certified

Submitted by falonaj on Tuesday May 22, 2007 @05:09AM

falonaj writes: Munich's KDE distribution LiMux has been certified to meet the international usability standard ISO 9241. The use of KDE 3 as an 'effective, efficient and satisfactory' working environment is named as a decisive factor for passing the certification. This is the first time that a Free Software desktop has been officially attested for usability by the German certification association TÜV. After an extensive two-year process of iterative testing, TÜV IT confirms that 'Open Source has reached a very high level of professionalism' and concludes that KDE's Open Source nature made it very easy for Munich to ensure that the software is especially efficient and user friendly for their office workers.

Submission + - Starcraft 2 for Linux

Submitted by

fbmx24

on Monday May 21, 2007 @07:39PM

fbmx24 writes: "As some of you have probably heard, Blizzard games has announced that its next game is going to be Starcraft II. We have started a petition to port it to Linux here. http://www.petitiononline.com/ibpfl/petition.html"

Submission + - GoogleDocs, OpenOffice or Microsoft Office?

Submitted by

E. Stride

on Monday May 21, 2007 @10:44AM

E. Stride writes: "An office suite expert explains the differences between GoogleDocs, OpenOffice and Microsoft Office, and goes deeper into the OpenXML vs. OpenDocument debate."

Submission + - A cynic rips open source

Submitted by

AlexGr

on Sunday May 20, 2007 @11:41PM

AlexGr writes: "Howard Anderson chaired an interesting meeting the other day. It was him against senior executives of Cisco, Agilent Technologies and Novell. The subject was: Do enterprise users really want open source? http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2007/051007 anderson.html"

Submission + - newbie coder

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Friday May 18, 2007 @02:34PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "I have been in the IT field ever since the onset of 1 way cable modems, 10 years later I look at my resume filled with candy that any IT recruiter would love to market. I currently am employed at one of the world's largest E-Commerce firms. I have no real world experience when it comes to creating programs. The only thing I have relatively done is code up a generic script to run Cramer's Law in my Trig/Calc class. (And no I didn't steal it, via Ti-82 comm cable) I wrote it myself. My company is primarily Perl based when it comes to writing utilities. However, Perl is unique in that, there are many ways to do one thing. Which honestly is great to hear, but I have been told that this can form bad habits. (IE sloppy code) I need to learn Perl as a method to propel myself at work and in general linux administration. Should I learn another scripting language first? (Bash?, Tcl?) Sure this opens up a great world of debate. Please if any contact is send explain why to run a specific path. For other's that are learning, and have gotten proficient what worked for you? I have been staring at an O'Reilly's manual and still feel left in cold dark world of not knowing perl."

Submission + - The source code for day-to-day life

Submitted by on Friday May 18, 2007 @02:21PM

An anonymous reader writes: http://www.pseudocoded.com is a blog by web developer Ade Olonoh, who's capturing his thoughts and decisions from day-to-day life through source code. Pretty funny so far.

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